Do you like DISH TV?

[polarisrider1]

We are in a rural'ish area. Charter box is 1/2 mile from our house and they won't lay the cord to connect the houses on our street otherwise I'd have Charter is only for their rippin' fast Inet.

We ended up staying with Direct. DISH wasn't competitive with Direct and we got some smoking deals for coming back. And after the deals run out in 12 months, the price is still lower than DISH.

I do need to look into a streaming TV service though!

Charter told me it cost them $3000 to run the cable a quarter mile to my house and they will "buy out" my contract. Yesterday our DirecTV went out, they know Charter is chomping at the bit. Called direct at 10:30 pm to report the problem, we had a DirecTV guy on our front porch at 8:05 am this morning. I suspect DirecTV wants to keep me!?!

 

[chords]

Naw , guy prob lived in the area. Quick billable hour or two.

 

[groomerdriver]

Charter told me it cost them $3000 to run the cable a quarter mile to my house and they will "buy out" my contract. Yesterday our DirecTV went out, they know Charter is chomping at the bit. Called direct at 10:30 pm to report the problem, we had a DirecTV guy on our front porch at 8:05 am this morning. I suspect DirecTV wants to keep me!?!

Charter told me $50K to run a line 1/2 mile. Under my breath I called BS to that number. Maybe some day??????

 

[xcr440]

All I know is that you people with cabins can subscribe to Directv at home, add an extra receiver and take it to your cabin, find a dish on Ebay, and wa-lah!

THIS is why I have Direct. I've moved a couple times over the past 5 years, so I currently have 3 working dishes, and a spare!

When they converted to the new HD dish 6-7 years ago, I asked the installer for one for my cabin, and he pulled a brand new dish off the truck and dropped it in my garage.

 

[whitedust]

Charter told me it cost them $3000 to run the cable a quarter mile to my house and they will "buy out" my contract. Yesterday our DirecTV went out, they know Charter is chomping at the bit. Called direct at 10:30 pm to report the problem, we had a DirecTV guy on our front porch at 8:05 am this morning. I suspect DirecTV wants to keep me!?!

Direct has been very good to me too....Dish not so good & service was terrible in Phelps no other options for me.

 

[mrbb]

dish network has been just fine here for yrs for me
have yet to have any big issues minus a storm or so that blocked signal, and had the say issue's wit direct Tv, only I now pay a bunch less$$ for sale like channels

 

[polarisrider1]

THIS is why I have Direct. I've moved a couple times over the past 5 years, so I currently have 3 working dishes, and a spare!

When they converted to the new HD dish 6-7 years ago, I asked the installer for one for my cabin, and he pulled a brand new dish off the truck and dropped it in my garage.

Same here. Had one on the dock and another up north, plus the big 3 gun one on the house. We just take the receiver out of spare room when we go to either place and direct goes with. I even added quick connect ends to save me 5 seconds of installation time.

 

[snocrazy]

Have had Dish in the munising area for 7 years.
I had it installed in Chicago area and moved it all my self to the UP. I get all of the local Chicago Channels.
The spot beam for local channels is an oval and comes up towards Eastern UP. During storms I do tend to lose the local HD channels but the standard ones still work in a jam.

No antenna TV here and Internet is Jamadots Hiawatha Telco. Not fast at all for streaming.

So I pretty much am stuck with satellite. If I was not a sports fan I would not have it at all.
Hawks, Sox, Bears, Bulls - I get em all.

Had a group over for Bears game a couple of weeks ago. It was on CBS. After the game the news came on and it was 99% shootings and robberies on the South Side Of Chi Town.
It was pretty dam comical the locals reactions to that being the local news!

VIP 722 HR receiver in living room. Receiver in master bedroom.
All other rooms and garage use the modulated signal off of these receivers.
The new setup uses the hopper set up. I think each tv would require a sling receiver. Why I have stayed with my good old setup.

 

[snobuilder]

Never paid a dime to pay TV so far over my 60 years in SE WI. Uncompressed HDTV through the 40 foot towered antenna works just fine. Eff the man, man.
Grab yur balls outta storage and make a stand! Screw Hollywood,...screw the fatcats...screw the greedy glutonous athletes,...etc.!

 

[POLARISDAN]

Never paid a dime to pay TV so far over my 60 years in SE WI. Uncompressed HDTV through the 40 foot towered antenna works just fine. Eff the man, man.
Grab yur balls outta storage and make a stand! Screw Hollywood,...screw the fatcats...screw the greedy glutonous athletes,...etc.!

wow..ur a trip sometimes

 

[chords]

I never paid a $ for 60 yrs TV either and never will. Big money pays for endless TV that is well ....endless and mindless. Lug recievers and dish's around and enjoy